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Originally Posted by ducasi I think that's maybe how we were being taught - at least, I wasn't letting go until my left hand was quite far right - actually pulling my partner back into the spin. Don't think I was doing this quite right though.  |
the end of the cattapult: the lady is to your left side, behind a barrier made with your left arm. Your right arm is in a half-nelson type thing behind your back.
- Release your right hand right
- at waist level, your hand should travel in an arc forward and towards your right, drawing the lady infront of you; left hand is now opposite your right hip at waist level, the arm is fairly straight throught this segment. The lady's feet are infront of yours (never mind where she's facing)
- Continue the motion into a curve in towards your belly, then out again to the mirror position opposite your left hip
- Push the hand directly away from you, continuing the smooth curve and let go.
Doing it this way brings her quite close - just beware of the trailing elbow & try to avoid it.
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Interesting you suggest this. When I was first learning, I was stepping back on the "wrong" foot, but corrected myself eventually.
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When mimicing stuff from the stage, there is a "wrong foot". In freestyle, there is not (thank goodness!
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My main problem with the basket, I guess, is that I always forget I need to have a double hand-hold before I go into it - now I think about it, this was maybe one major factor in the disaster that was my dancing.  |
A bit more "advanced", but if you get the timing right you can step in while the lady does a turn and wrap her into your right hand side: a one-handed basket. This works best if you meet half-way*; the start to the turn has to be a gentle pull-forward, then step in when her back is to you. You have to use your right hand on her right hip as a reinforcement to the lead with the left hand telling her to stop the turn half way.
(*or as a second turn, making it a turn and a half.)
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Originally Posted by Drathzel 3. step across |
yea, well; they are all called something like "twiddly move with thingie" in my head - I have to work out what everyone else calls them